Tuesday, December 18, 2007

So This Is Christmas




The time has come and as with every year I rush to shops to spend my hard earn dollars buying gifts and food and generally attempting not to be caught up in the consumerism and over indulgence breed into us from an early age...

As I get older and my children also grow up it does get easier....

There are so many different cultures here in Oz it can be tricky when visiting friends who do not celebrate Christmas to know what to do....

Do you send a card?
Do you Give their child a gift?
Invite them to Lunch on Christmas Day?

We tend to invite them to celebrate the Spirit of the Day not the religious tone of it... and celebrate the more Pagan aspects of it as in time with family friends the sharing of meal and general good times... We do make an effort to imcorporate the various cultures of our friends into this special day and our friends also bring with them some of the traditional eats and drinks.... so it becomes a multicultural banquet of sorts....
Do you celebrate Christmas?
And how do you celebrate....
What are your Traditions?